Bar-Ilan University
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The Bar - Ilan University (Hebrew אוניברסיטת בר - אילן, Arabic جامعة بار - ايلا; short BIU) is a university in Ramat Gan, in the Tel Aviv District, Israel. It was opened in 1955 and is next to the Open University of Israel the second largest university in the country with 36,000 students ( with associated colleges ) and 1,700 academic staff.
Organization
The BIU has six faculties:
- Exact Sciences
- Environmental Sciences
- Social sciences
- Humanities
- Jewish Studies
- Right
Study, teaching and research
In the faculties of natural sciences, life sciences, humanities and social sciences, Jewish Studies, and Law as well as in interdisciplinary postgraduate training centers teach 1,600 lecturers more than 30,000 students. The biggest Israeli schools for education and social work as well as one of the world's best faculties of Jewish Studies are located in the BIU.
The BIU is home to internationally renowned research institutes in physics, medical chemistry, materials and nano sciences, applied and pure mathematics, cancer and brain research, economics, strategic studies, developmental psychology, archeology, Jewish law and philosophy, and other areas. In the libraries of the University there is a backlog of more than 1 million books, including unique collections of antique Judaica.
Around 60 universities around the world are connected to the BIU on agreements, including 13 universities from Germany. Like other Israeli research institutions received the BIU through various programs, such as Minerva, DIP, GIF, BMBF - MOST and financial support from the DFG funds. Some of the most successful EU networks started with a collaboration between BIU and German researchers. The University is the owner of approximately 100 active patents, some of which are commercially exploited by German industrial companies.
The Bar - Ilan University and its degrees are recognized in Germany.
History
The university was named after the Rabbi Meir Bar - Ilan (originally Meir Berlin ), named a leader of the religious Zionism, which had initiated the establishment of the University in the early 1950s. He studied at the German Orthodox seminaries in Berlin and saw a need for an institution that offered a dual curriculum of secular academic studies, as well as religious Torah studies.
In the controversy that accompanied the development of the peace process of Yitzhak Rabin, radical movements on campus were very active. Rabin's assassin, Yigal Amir, was a law and computer science student at the BIU. The murder shocked the university authorities, who were accused by the public and by the press of extremism. One of the steps that have been taken by the university in the episode, was to encourage dialogue between the leftist and rightist students by credit points were awarded even for participation in mutual discussions.